Version 0.1.0 - Living the Dream
#published 2011-11-02 9:00
#author Deb Nicholson

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  <img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.1.0_banner.png"
       alt="MediaGoblin 0.1.0 banner" />
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<p>Can you believe we've only been working on MediaGoblin since March?
The biggest news is that 0.1.0 is out! We want to take a few minutes
to look back at how far we've come and how many people have been
supportive and how many folks have become contributors. With all the
excitement and positivity, you'd think we were shipping out bushels of
free candy instead of building a free as in freedom media-hosting site.
Fortunately, there are lots of folks who agree that a decentralized
web is even better than a pillow case full of sugary treats.</p>

<p>We've completely <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/">redone the main
website</a>.  We even have a new <a href="/pages/tour.html">tour
page</a>! Thanks so much to Jef van Schendel for making our website a
thing of beauty (and to Alex Camelio for adding the cute icons on the
frontpage). Go ahead and <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/">check it
out</a>! Seriously, we'll be right here when you return.</p>

<p>
You may find it invigorating to look at
our <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/news/goals-for-our-first-alpha-release.html">Alpha
goals</a> to see how far we've come. While there are a few things we
didn't get to (captchas and featured works) but there are many more
big ideas that we were able to turn into reality. We have a
sophisticated "unframework" which is working beautifully for our
needs. We have a great, consistent (and dare I say suave?) theme. We
have an abstracted storage system which already is being used to
interface with OpenStack's Swift storage system. Comments and
tagging are working.  We're also well on our way toward supporting
multiple media types. We are living the dream and the reality is
even better than we'd expected. Welcome to our alpha release!
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<p>
As we get ready to start coding up federation, aka world domination,
we added brand-new deployment documentation
&mdash; <a href="http://docs.mediagoblin.org/deploying.html">take a
look</a>!  Better yet, install it and let us know how it went. Last
month we added cross site request forgery protection and lost password
functionality.  There was some significant internal restructuring this
month as we gear up for caching and supporting more media types in the
next release or so.  The translations crew continues to amaze us with
their volume and diligence. Watch out world, here we come.
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<p>
Thanks to all our contributors!  Aaron Williamson, Alejandro
Villanueva, Alex Camelio, Caleb Forbes Davis V, Christopher Allan
Webber, Deb Nicholson, Elrond of Samba TNG, Jef van Schendel, Jim
Campbell, Joar Wandborg, Nathan Yergler, Sam Kleinman, Shawn Khan,
Thorsten Wilms, Will Kahn-Greene... this month's release wouldn't have
happened without your help!
</p>

<p>What's around the corner?  For one
thing, <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/images/tour/sintel_video.png">video
is nearing usability</a>:</p>

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  <a href="/images/tour/sintel_video.png"
     ><img src="/images/tour/sintel_video-scaled.png"
           alt="Sintel video test" /></a>
  <br />
  <i>(Image from <a href="http://sintel.org/">Sintel</a> by the
    <a href="http://www.blender.org/blender-institute/">Blender Institute</a>,
    released under
    <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported</a>)
  </i>
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<p>and the exciting work on federation is in planning. We've got lots
of small bugs for folks who are new to python, larger tasks for folks
who want to immerse themselves in the challenge of federation and we
are actively seeking opinionated web users to give us feedback on our
test site. <a href="/pages/join.html">Join us on the journey</a>!</p>
